A competitor for WYNIT Distribution has stepped up to offer jobs to qualified employees who lost their positions last week when the warehousing and logistics firm announced it would close its Greenville headquarters.

Fremont, Calif.-based SYNNEX Corp. held a job fair Monday at its Greenville facility after advertising the event on Facebook. "Want to be a part of the SYNNEX team?" the posting said, continuing: "For qualified candidates, we are interviewing on the spot!"

"This is something I've never seen us do at Synnex," wrote Lisa Mowery Seal, who is a customer service director at SYNNEX. "If anything, it's a battle to get your resume to the right person. This presumably relates to finding homes for the more talented from the unfortunate shutdown of our competitor downtown."

Like WYNIT, SYNNEX distributes technology products to resellers and retail customers throughout North America. SYNNEX also provides professional and marketing services.

WYNIT moved its headquarters from Syracuse, N.Y., to the ONE Building at 2. Washington St. in downtown Greenville two years ago and had been named one of South Carolina's top employers earlier this month. But on Friday afternoon, citing unexpected financial issues, WYNIT said it could no longer maintain its presence in Greenville.

According to the IT trade publication crn.com, SYNNEX vice president for marketing in North America, Bob Stegner, had tweeted Saturday that "We need to keep these IT associates in Greenville." SYNNEX, Stegner wrote, "is always looking for good people."

"Great opportunity for all the Wynit folks displaced by last week's shutdown news," wrote Addie Bradshaw Finch, a director at SYNNEX.

Reached for comment, Jennifer Oladipo, the public relations account director for SYNNEX at the Hughes Agency, said the company was not ready to elaborate on the job fair that took place Monday.

The Facebook posting indicated that SYNNEX is hiring for positions in sales, business development, product management, customer service, credit collections and marketing.